The Walking Dead is coming back for a third season October 14 producer Glen Mazzara announced today. It will debut internationally the next day. The news came early in the AMC show’s panel at Comic-Con. The panel started off with The Walking Dead comic creator and series producer Robert Kirkman and fellow producers Gale Anne Hurd and Mazzara discussing the new season. “We open on a scene of I can’t tell you,” joked Kirkman. A short preview of the upcoming season was played to cheers for the packed Hall H.
Season 3 sees the introduction of the Governor character from the comics and takes a dark show even darker. David Morrissey plays the Guv, and came out onstage with series stars Andrew Lincoln, Sarah Wayne Callies, Stephen Yeun, Norman Reedus and Laurie Holden after the preview played. New addition Danai Gurira, who was introduced as Michonne at the end of season two also joined the group. Not that any of them could tell the fans much. “We can’t say anything other than generic things,” joked Yeun about what to expect in season three. Morrissey won over the crowd with his own fanboyism and how being at Comic-Con is “a dream come true.” Like The Big Bang Theory did earlier in the day, The Walking Dead offered a prize to a fan. In this case, a female fan will come into the series’ effects studio to have a zombie mask cast of her head to use in the show. The panel ended today with an encore screening of the season three preview.
Comic-Con: ‘Walking Dead’ Season 3 Premiere Is October 14
Comic-Con: ‘Big Bang Theory’ Sending Fan To Space
The Big Bang Theory is really sending one of its fans on a suborbital flight, much like one of its lead characters at the end of last season. A fan named Mercedes, who asked the assembled cast and crew a question earlier in today’s Comic-Con panel, won a contest offered by the show that puts her on a space flight from private company COR Aerospace. She will fly with Astronaut Richard Searfoss on the Lynx Experience, a two-seat launch vehicle that goes up and down like a regular plane.
The gift — which came after Simon Helberg, whose Howard Wolowitz character went into space last season on the show, pretended to turn down the offer from Searfoss — was really the only surprise of the panel. But five seasons in, Big Bang Theory still has such a massive audience on TV and the CBS comedy drew a massive crowd to the cavernous Hall H. Entering to cheers, cast members Kunal Nayyar, Kaley Cuoco, Helberg, Melissa Rauch, Mayim Bialik were joined by producers Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady. Johnny Galecki couldn’t make it as his flight was delayed. Jim Parsons joined via satellite from NYC where he is performing on Broadway. Read More »
Comic-Con: New ‘Community’ Showrunners Promise Not To Screw It Up
The Community panel wasted no time in addressing the departure of Dan Harmon this morning.

“The only thing we care about is keeping it the weird wonderful gem it always has been, said new producer David Guarascio to applause from the packed ballroom. “We’re not going to screw it up,” the other new showrunner Moses Port added later. Guarascio and Port became Community’s showrunners after Harmon was fired by NBC in May. Cast members Danny Pudi, Gillian Jacobs, Alison Brie, Joel McHale, Yvette Nicole Brown, series writers Megan Ganz, Andy Bobrow and executive producer Russ Krasnoff joined the showrunners on the panel. Chevy Chase, Ken Jeong, Donald Glover and Jim Rash were not there. Read More »
Comic-Con: Universal Greenlights Edgar Wright’s Pub Crawl Epic ‘The World’s End’

EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures has officially greenlighted The World’s End, the third film in director Edgar Wright’s trilogy of comedies with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost that began with 2004’s Shaun Of The Dead and 2007’s Hot Fuzz. Wright is currently in pre-production on the film, which will begin shooting this October in the UK
Pegg wrote the script with Wright and once again stars with Frost. Working Title’s Eric Fellner and Tim Bevan will produce with Nira Park of Big Talk Pictures. Here Deadline can unveil the teaser poster (at right) made for Comic-Con. Read More »
Comic-Con: ‘Community’s Joel McHale Wanted Ousted Creator Dan Harmon Back
“It’s a strange transition time” at Community, series star Joel McHale said this morning on the sidelines of Comic-Con ahead of the NBC show’s panel presentation. The sudden departure of series creator-showrunner Dan Harmon from the comedy … Read More »
Comic-Con: ‘Miss Bala’ Helmer Gerardo Naranjo Sets Focus Features Deal For Political Thriller ‘A Man Must Die’

EXCLUSIVE: While Focus Features has an early panel today at Comic-Con to unveil its family-themed ghoulish animated film Paranorman, the indie studio has just closed a deal for Gerardo Naranjo to direct A Man Must Die. Naranjo, who helmed the … Read More »
Comic-Con: Neil Gaiman To Write New ‘Sandman’ Series

Author Neil Gaiman will collaborate with artist J.H. Williams III (Batwoman) on a new limited series based on his classic graphic novel The Sandman for … Read More »
Comic-Con: ‘Dexter’ Teases With Seventh Season Footage, Yvonne Strahovski
The upcoming seventh season of Dexter sees the Miami
serial killer busted by his own sister, Comic-Con fans learned today. A brief … Read More »
Comic-Con: ‘Elementary’s Lucy Liu Gets Enthusiastic Support From Crowd
Two and a half months before Elementary premieres on CBS, the pilot screened to a packed ballroom here at Comic-Con and it was all about the woman. Lucy Liu to be specific. The actress and her … Read More »
Comic-Con: Schwarzenegger, Stallone Play To The Crowd For ‘Expendables 2′
Luke Y. Thompson is contributing to Deadline’s coverage of Comic-Con.
With The Expendables 2: Real American Heroes Arnold Schwarzenegger is definitely back in the hearts of Comic-Con fans, dominating the movie panel and the cheers. He also … Read More »
Comic-Con: Arnold Schwarzenegger Confirms He’s Doing ‘Twins’ Sequel With Ivan Reitman
Luke Y. Thompson is contributing to Deadline’s coverage of Comic-Con.
The former California governor said during Lionsgate‘s panel for the action pic The Expendables 2 today at Comic-Con that he will make a sequel to the 1988 movie … Read More »
Comic-Con: Jackie Chan On ‘CZ12′ And A Lifetime Of “Hurting”
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During a funny, self-deprecating Comic-Con panel, Jackie Chan advised a crowd who gave him a standing ovation not to hurt themselves like he has. His latest movie … Read More »
Comic-Con: Disney Unveils ‘Oz The Great And Powerful’, ‘The Lone Ranger’, And More
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The Disney panel at Comic-Con offered the first trailers for Sam Raimi’s Oz The Great And Powerful and Gore Verbinski’s The Lone Ranger. Raimi’s Oz impressed … Read More »
Hot Trailer: ‘Oz The Great And Powerful’
Here’s the first trailer for Disney‘s Oz The Great And Powerful. The trailer screened today at Comic-Con along with one for The Lone Ranger that we’ll post as soon as it’s available. Directed by Sam Raimi and starring James Franco and Mila Kunis, Oz is … Read More »
Comic-Con: MTV Renews ‘Teen Wolf’ For Third Season
MTV is bringing back Teen Wolf for a third season, it was announced today at Comic-Con. The show’s star Tyler Posey first teased fans that the show hadn’t been picked up to … Read More »
Comic-Con: ‘Twilight’ Finale, ‘Host’ Footage, Star Power Panel Don’t Disappoint
Luke Y. Thompson is contributing to Deadline’s coverage of Comic-Con.
Today’s Twilight panel screened the first seven minutes of final installment and it looks as wildly over the top as director Bill Condon’s previous installment. As promised there was … Read More »
Comic-Con Update: ‘Twilight’ Fans See ‘Host’ Footage In ‘Breaking Dawn 2′ Panel

UPDATE, 1:55 PM: As we told you yesterday was likely to happen, the Twilight panel is now showing scenes from Stephenie Meyer’s new movie The Host. It’s fitting that Meyer and distributor Open Road would … Read More »
Comic-Con: Thomas Tull Blows Off Legendary Comics Panel
Sources tell Deadline that the Legendary Entertainment CEO won’t be attending his own Legendary Comics panel today in San Diego. Instead Tull is attending the Allen and Co’s investment conference in Sun Valley, … Read More »
Comic-Con: ‘Dredd’ Plays To Cheering Fans, But Will It Play To The Mainstream?
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The good news for Lionsgate is that Comic-Con fans of the pen-and-ink Judge Dredd accept this new Dredd as the real deal, unlike the Stallone version. … Read More »

